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Wassily Kandinsky

1866 - 1944

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Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky (16 December [O.S. 4 December] 1866 – 13 December 1944) was a Russian painter and art theorist. Kandinsky is generally credited as one of the pioneers of abstraction in western art. Born in Moscow, he spent his childhood in Odessa, where he graduated from Odessa Art School. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wassily Kandinsky has received more than 5,583,594 page views. His biography is available in 82 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 81 in 2019). Wassily Kandinsky is the 28th most popular painter (down from 26th in 2019), the 19th most popular biography from Russia and the most popular Russian Painter.

Wassily Kandinsky is most famous for his abstract paintings.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Wassily Kandinsky ranks 28 out of 2,023. Before him are Titian, Gustav Klimt, Donatello, Eugène Delacroix, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, and Édouard Manet. After him are Hieronymus Bosch, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Jan van Eyck, Edgar Degas, Marc Chagall, and Jacques-Louis David.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1866, Wassily Kandinsky ranks 1. After him are Sun Yat-sen, Romain Rolland, George Gurdjieff, Erik Satie, H. G. Wells, Antoine Meillet, Thomas Hunt Morgan, Alfred Werner, Benedetto Croce, Giovanni Agnelli, and Aby Warburg. Among people deceased in 1944, Wassily Kandinsky ranks 5. Before him are Edvard Munch, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Piet Mondrian, and Erwin Rommel. After him are Romain Rolland, Claus von Stauffenberg, Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom, Abdulmejid II, William James Sidis, Reza Shah, and Günther von Kluge.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Wassily Kandinsky ranks 19 out of 3,761. Before him are Nicholas II of Russia (1868), Grigori Rasputin (1869), Alexander Pushkin (1799), Ivan the Terrible (1530), Boris Yeltsin (1931), and Kim Jong-il (1941). After him are Ivan Pavlov (1849), Ayn Rand (1905), Alexander I of Russia (1777), Lev Yashin (1929), Maxim Gorky (1868), and Isaac Asimov (1920).

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Among PAINTERS In Russia

Among painters born in Russia, Wassily Kandinsky ranks 1. After him are Andrei Rublev (1360), Ivan Shishkin (1832), Nicholas Roerich (1874), Ivan Kramskoi (1837), Natalia Goncharova (1881), Vasily Vereshchagin (1842), Viktor Vasnetsov (1848), Alexej von Jawlensky (1864), Karl Bryullov (1799), Valentin Serov (1865), and Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov (1806).

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